Black Coffee

A FILM BY Irene Angelico

A FILM BY Irene Angelico

Canadians drink 402 cups of coffee a year... spend $600-million a year on coffee for at-home consumption (and) $2.2 to $2.5-billion on brewed coffee... (meanwhile) sales of fair trade coffee in Canada are less than 1 per cent of the total coffee consumed...

-Stephanie Nolen, GLOBE & MAIL

Synopsis

Black Coffee is a remarkable three part documentary that chronicles coffee’s origins in Ethiopia and its triumphant spread over five continents, sparking revolution, controversy, creativity, business and slavery all along the way.